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From: Pancho <Pancho.Jones@proton.me>
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Subject: Re: The joy of pipes
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2024 17:04:35 +0000
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On 11/18/24 13:45, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> On 18/11/2024 11:05, Pancho wrote:
>> I do remember looking at named pipes and deciding it was appropriate 
>> for some task, but I have no memory of actually implementing it. Which 
>> could mean it just worked and I never thought about it again, or it 
>> could mean I didn't do it.
> 
> Similar here.
> I've tended to use ramdisk files ... for interprocess communication. Not 
> idiot proof, but can be made fit for purpose.
> 

I guess simpler than shared memory sections.

One of my golden rules of programming was - show me some RAM and I will 
squander it on a cache. :-) Although, my crime was mainly in memory 
databases.